Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

The last act crowns the play.

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.